Julia Schlüter

University of Bamberg · Institut für Anglistik

This volume illustrates new trends in corpus linguistics and shows how corpus approaches can be used to investigate new datasets and emerging areas in linguistics and related fields. It addresses innovative research questions, for example how prosodic analyses can increase the accuracy of syntactic segmentation, how tolerant English language teache...

This contribution supports and extends the principle of end-weight, first formulated by Quirk et al. (1972) to describe the tendency of heavy constituents to appear late in a sentence. Developing this principle further, we argue that it favours the addition of (functionally non-neutral) morphological markers to sentence-final constituents, which ar...

Die Digitalisierung übt tiefgreifenden Einfluss auf verschiedenste Bereiche menschlichen Lebens aus, unter anderem auf Bildung und damit einhergehend auch auf die Hochschullehre. Eine Kultur der Digitalität (Felix Stalder) verändert nicht nur die für Hochschulen grundlegenden Formen der Produktion von Wissen, sondern ebenso die Umgangsformen und Le...

Die Digitalisierung übt tiefgreifenden Einfluss auf verschiedenste Bereiche menschlichen Lebens aus, unter anderem auf Bildung und damit einhergehend auch auf die Hochschullehre. Eine Kultur der Digitalität (Felix Stalder) verändert nicht nur die für Hochschulen grundlegenden Formen der Produktion von Wissen, sondern ebenso die Umgangsformen und Le...

Corpus linguistics continues to be a vibrant methodology applied across highly diverse fields of research in the language sciences. With the current steep rise in corpus sizes, computational power, statistical literacy and multi-purpose software tools, and inspired by neighbouring disciplines, approaches have diversified to an extent that calls for...

Corpus linguistics continues to be a vibrant methodology applied across highly diverse fields of research in the language sciences. With the current steep rise in corpus sizes, computational power, statistical literacy and multi-purpose software tools, and inspired by neighbouring disciplines, approaches have diversified to an extent that calls for...

International audience Using the re-emergence of the /h/ onset from Early Modern to Present-Day English as a case study, we illustrate the making and the functions of a purpose-built web application named (an:a) lyzer for the interactive visualization of the raw n-gram data provided by Google Books Ngrams (GBN). The database has been compiled from...

This paper investigates the (re-)emergence of onset consonants in English loans from French, Latin and Greek, spelt with initial (> /juː/; e.g. union , use ), initial (> /juː/; e.g. eulogy , euphemism ), or initial (e.g. habit , homogeneous ). It analyses Google Books data, exploiting the occurrence of the article allomorph a (rather than an ) as a...

In the Early Modern English period, English underwent a number of substantial changes in all phonological subsystems, which transformed the Middle English system into a distinctly modern one. The present chapter highlights in turn changes in lexical stress patterns, the reduction of unstressed syllables, changes in the distribution of certain conso...

The present paper provides a survey of the influence exerted by rhythm on various domains of linguistic constituency. It fosters a layered conception of the structure of linguistic utterances (similar to the one present in neural network models) and argues that the intensity of rhythmic effects decreases with an increasing distance between the ling...

The importance of variation and change. Language variation and change highlight the fact that language universally involves alternative forms and structures that compete with each other in usage. For instance, speakers of Scottish varieties of English may in certain circumstances front the initial consonant in thing and pronounce it as fing. A spea...

In this paper it is argued, contra Chomsky (1995), that phonological factors like the preference for alternating syllable structures (or the avoidance of hiatuses and complex consonant clusters) and the striving for an alternating rhythm (or the avoidance of stress clashes and lapses) have the potential to (co-)determine morphological and syntactic...

This collective volume focuses on the crucial role of formal evidence in recognizing and explaining instances of grammaticalization. It addresses the hitherto neglected issue of system-internal factors steering grammaticalization and also revisits formal recognition criteria such as Lehmann and Hopper’s parameters of grammaticalization. The article...

It is well known that British and American English differ substantially in their pronunciation and vocabulary - but differences in their grammar have largely been underestimated. This volume focuses on British-American differences in the structure of words and sentences and supports them with computer-aided studies of large text collections. Presen...

The present contribution investigates the motivations underlying a tendency for phonological phrases in English to start with upbeats, that is, unstressed syllables. The empirical part consists of two case studies based on a corpus of Early Modern English prose, focusing on the variable use of the preposition of introducing nominal complements of (...

Introduction The subjunctive is one of the most striking and most frequently commented-on domains of grammatical contrasts between the two major national varieties of English. Many surveys and specific studies have remarked on the greater propensity of AmE to use the subjunctive in contexts where BrE resorts to two other options, the indicative or...

Introduction Based on the assumption that functional constraints underdetermine the precise shape a grammar can take, this contribution explores the influence of a rhythmic universal on grammatical variation in BrE and AmE. Although the historical division between the two national varieties under consideration has occurred only recently (by the sta...

Outline Rather than a conclusion summing up the findings from the present volume, this final chapter forms an outlook that is intended to foster a continuation of the work begun by the contributors. The authors of this chapter and editors of this volume do not pretend that the differences between BrE and AmE grammar studied in the preceding chapter...

Aims and Scope This groundbreaking book highlights a phonological preference, the Principle of Rhythmic Alternation, as a factor in grammatical variation and change in English from the early modern period to the present. Though frequently overlooked in earlier research, the phonetically motivated avoidance of adjacent stresses is shown to exert an...

In Early Modern English, double comparatives were often encountered in both spoken and written language. The present article investigates the redundantly marked comparative worser in relation to its irregular, but etymologically justified, counterpart worse. My aim is to examine the diachronic development of the form as well as its distributio...